ForCon : a software tool for the conversion of sequence alignments

ForCon is a software tool for the conversion of nucleic acid and amino acid sequence alignments that runs on IBMcompatible computers under a Microsoft Windows environment.The program converts alignment formats used by all popular software packages for sequence alignment and phylogenetic tree inference.ForCon is available for free on request from the authors or can be downloaded via internet at URL http://bioc-www.uia.ac.be/u/jraes/ index.html .It is also included in the software package TREECON for Windows (see http://bioc-www.uia.ac.be/u/ yvdp/index.html).

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